Welcome to another weekly edition of “Where Did The Dough Go?”. Below you can get a completely open and honest view of what we’re spending money on, how much we’re saving, investing and putting away for retirement. Please feel free to learn from our financial mistakes if at all possible, it’s way better than making them yourself. 
Friday 21st
+ $1,155.67 Honey’s Paycheck
No real spending today 
-/+ $50.00 (Roth IRA- reader’s decision)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)
Saturday 22nd
– $13.97 (pumpkins to carve)
– $1.59 (ice)
– $24.95 (whiskey for honey)
– $87.15 (cigarettes)
– $41.75 (groceries)
Sunday 23rd
No spend day 
Monday 24th
– $7.84 (soda)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)
Tuesday 25th
– $9.25 (groceries)
– $29.89 (pizza)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)
Wednesday 26th
No real spending today
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)
Thursday 27th
– $12.97 (Health & Beauty 😉 )
– $5.72 (Household)
– $68.52 (groceries)
– /+ $1.00 (transfer to savings)
-/+ $2.00 (transfer to ING to save for Car insurance)
Total Weekly Spending: $368.60
Pre-tax 401K Contributions $95.69
Categorized:
Savings $5.00
Groceries $128.95
Cigarettes $87.15
Alcohol $24.95
Other $32.66
Dining Out $29.89
Roth IRA Contributions $50.00
Save 4 Car insurance $10.00
Left-over for remaining week $787.07
Notes: We sure haven’t saved much from this paycheck. 
Most of our left-over money from this week will go towards our Rent & Bills next week, as well as getting our windshield fixed. Stupid trucks carrying stupid flying rocks.
I can’t believe we spent so much money on groceries this week, I used to do so much better. Apparently, I’ve gotten lazy about saving money on groceries—this is an expensive bad habit.
Ooooh, and there’s the $50.00 that you guys voted for me to send to my Roth IRA, thanks again. That appears to be the only responsible thing I’ve done with this paycheck. I’ve just been all scatter-brained since returning from vacation, I just need to get back into my groove.
How did your budget/spending go this week?
are those little amounts all transferred automatically?
Yep, they sure are.
I explain more about them here: http://www.mastertheartofsaving.com/2011/05/28/ways-i-save-3/
Ah, cool! I may try this!
It’s worked very well for us over the years.
How can you stand to see how much cigarettes are costing you?? They’re 67% of what you spend on *food* in a week. Although maybe you buy in bulk and that will last you a month or something?
It really does suck wasting so much money on cigarettes. I’m always thinking, “Wow, we could save a few thousand bucks a year, if we’d just quit.” My husband smokes too, so I have to get him to quit with me. We do buy our cigarettes in Oregon, that saves us probably about $90+ each month. One day…